I’ve decided to try and create a habit of posting an image a day on my Facebook page… a process I started a week and a half ago on the 19th.

Here’s the first image I posted.

All the images posted so far have been from a series called Raising The World Tree/Incoming Comet.

These mixed-media collages on paper are each about 7″ wide by 8 1/2 ” high and were created in 1997 and 1998.

Raising The World Tree

The idea of raising The World Tree is a common mythical theme in many different religions. Here’s the Wikipedia quote:

The world tree is a motif present in several religions and mythologies, particularly Indo-European religions, Siberian religions, and Native American religions. The world tree is represented as a colossal tree which supports the heavens, thereby connecting the heavens, the earth, and, through its roots, the underground. It may also be strongly connected to the motif of the tree of life.

I think of “Raising The World Tree” in the same way as the Hopi – that we currently live in the Fourth World which is coming to an end someday, at that point a new World Tree will be raising up which will be the beginning of the Fifth World.

Incoming Comet

One of the things that stood out while creating these pieces was the large red spot which moved through the drawings, a reoccurring icon like a comet of old, appearing in the sky like a harbinger of some event just beyond the horizon of the moment.

Here’s a painting from the same time I was doing the drawings, it’s called (Hank William’s) Lost Highway, and has the same red spot moving through it…

I’m not saying what comet that is, I’m just saying – it’s a comet…

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